How To Measure Without A Ruler
2016-2017
How To Measure Without a Ruler weighs the personal archive against the scientific. Gleaning its imagery from my father’s collection of slides and prints, the series blurs the lines between the photographs used to to document the changing climate and snapshots of my father’s life and my family’s history. Presenting the personal archive alongside the naturally occurring archives of the tree cores present throughout the works, the show draws an analogous link between their formation, and that of the slow and gradual accumulation of a photographic archive. Bringing to mind ideas of conservation both archivally and environmentally it forces the viewer to question both their relationship to the landscape and their relationship to photography and the archive. With recent pushback against access to scientific research How to Measure Without a Ruler provides a human element to the debate and allows the viewer to see that nothing happens in isolation.
The exhibition was displayed at Pushmi Pullyu in Toronto in late 2017.
Kind of Like Fishing (A Different Landscape 01)
Linen over Panel, Gel Medium, Laser Print
24" x 30"
2017
Farther Away it Looks the Same (A Different Landscape 05)
Linen over Panel, Gel medium, Laser Print, Tape
Dimensions Variable
2017
50% Chance of Rain
Wood, Tape, Thermostat
Dimensions Variable
2017
More Or Less
Wood, Tape
Dimension Variable
2017
They Didn’t Grow Too Big (A Different Landscape 03)
Approximately 13” x 11”
Linen over Panel, Gel Medium, Laser Print, Bonsai Tree
2017
Left:They Didn’t Grow Too Big (A Different Landscape 03)
Right:Carousel
Dimensions variable
Wood, Slide Carrier, Tape, Altered C-Print
2017
Left: Carousel
Right: I Think I Owe a Favour (A Different Landscape 04)
61” x 82”
Adhesive Vinyl
2017
Left: I Think I Owe a Favour (A Different Landscape 04)
Right Ecomny Pac
Econmy Pac
13" x 14"
Laser Print, Masking Tape
2017
Front: Repeater
Left Back: I Think I Owe a Favour (A Different Landscape 04)
Centre Back: Econmy Pac
Right Back: A Couple Things I Forgot
Left: A Couple Things I Forgot
Right; Whiskey in The Camelback (A Different Landscape 02)
11” x 14”
Linen over Panel, Gel Medium, Laser Print
2017
A Couple Things I Forgot
Dimensions Variable
35mm Positives, Slide Carriers, Tape
2017
Centre: Repeater
Dimensions Variable
Tripod, 35mm Positives, Gel Medium, Linen over Panel, Wood, Laser Print
2017